| The Killers – Change Your Mind Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Too deep, some of you! I reckon its a song about two people who like each other but have never said anything and are scared to (him particularly). 'While I ignore, that we both felt like this before, it starts to show' - him saying that it has gone unsaid for a long time but now, he's betraying it by his actions and it's ruining things between them as mates (we've all been there). The the stuff about tragic eyes etc, he's talking about looking at his own reflection and not recognising himself because of what his feelings are doing to him. | |
| The Last Shadow Puppets – The Meeting Place Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This explanation is awesome and you're the only person who has noted that the whole album relates to one thing. I've got carried away with my own comments (see below) but you've totally nailed it. | |
| The Last Shadow Puppets – Standing Next To Me Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I have a different take on this song as part of my theory that the whole album is about one issue, a relationship going wrong (see The Meeting Place for full theory). I reckon this is about the period when things were going OK (the only song on the album that sounds optimistic) - but he was "more into it" than her. Hence her love was 'standing next to (him)', emphasis on the fact it is next to him, rather than something that has been expressed or internalised. It is 'next to him' but not within him as it should be. This only really makes sense in the context of the whole album. |
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| The Last Shadow Puppets – Separate and Ever Deadly Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Slightly different take to some of the above on the lines "he painted you a gushing sunset and slayed angry panthers in your defence' and 'I create aversion, that pulls you back onto his arm". Clearly a 'third party' involved in the relationship but I reckon its someone from her past that she still thinks is perfect, but has lost, and the bloke in the present is suffering from comparisons to him, both by her and in his own mind. |
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| The Last Shadow Puppets – The Age of The Understatement Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Please look under 'The Meeting Place' for my take on this song and the whole album. Basically I think the whole album is about a relationship break-up where he was more serious than her (that is pretty obvious and has been noted by many other people). But in a way this song, even though its first on the album, is a 'hindsight' song. He could see it wouldn't work in the first place ('Move away from the parade') but did it anyway and ended up broken ('kiss me properly and pull me apart') and 'The Meeting Place' kind of tells the end part of the story....and we end up back here and has he learned his lessons for next time?! |
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| The Last Shadow Puppets – The Meeting Place Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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OK, here goes. I really agree with Lingeron's assessment that the whole album goes through a relationship that breaks up. PI'm posting comments under this song because this seems the crucial break-up one but this is mainly discussion of the album as a whole. Basically, both bloke and girl(but particularly bloke) invest a lot of hope in a relationship, it goes wrong, screws the pair of them up, and this whole album is kind of a retrospective from 'his' side. 'Understatement' is a 'wise after the event' song, first on the album but really a kind of summary of what has happened and the desire not to make the same mistakes again ('The boring would warn you, be careful of her brigade, in order, to tame this relentless marauder, move away from the parade' all basically is hindsight - should have known better but did it anyway and got bitten. 'Standing Next to Me' is a happier song about when things were going ok. 'Calm Like You' very important, he's saying it was moving too fast (climbing up a mountain far too steep) and 'no regard for the cost of saying his feelings, in the moment they were felt' I interpret as him expressing love or suchlike and it starts to scare her off (or at least she won't reciprocate these feelings, she's more up for fun and games; 'Affection to Rent' from 'Understatement'). 'Separate and Ever Deadly' and 'The Chamber' are reflections of it starting to go wrong with The Chamber being his state of mind and self torture. 'Only The Truth' - she thinks she knows best but her more casual or flippant attitude to it all are driving him nuts: the lyric 'she's in the warm by the riverbank, so its easier for her to drown you' suggests she was actually being very calculating about it all - putting her own interests (fun) above his (commitment). My Mistakes Were Made for You is along the same lines as Calm Like You 'The fact is that it probably will hit something, on the hazardous terrain' is summing up the grim inevitability of failure that he/they were blinkered to at the time. Black Plant and In My Room I don't understand that well, other than that they are more reflections on his broken state of mind ('waiting for a ray of light'). In 'I don't like you anymore' he's seen it for the sham that it is, and all the stuff he used to like about her has turned to hate. Which brings us to 'The Meeting Place' and 'The Time Has Come Again'. There are so many interesting interpretations of 'The Meeting Place' here which all have merit. This will be controversial but I think (in context of the whole album) that he's gone off her because of all her games, they've broken up, they are both very screwed up but she maybe can't let go now, and he wants out ('she clings to his consciousness, wherever he lays', and 'she's waiting in his dreams, to drag him back to the meeting place'). He wants the clean break and she won't leave him alone? I always interpreted the lyrics 'Sorry I met you, Sorry I left you' as being him talking rather than her, but reading the song and the explanations above, it does seem like she's talking. Either way it's about regret, the need to move on but not quite being able to clear the mind to do so. 'The Time Has Come Again' strikes me as being him saying, 'right, time to move on to the next chapter', whilst still looking back with regret. Next time will he learn the lessons of the Age of the Understatement?? Or do it all over again?? I also like the explanations that it's about death though, although that doesn't fit with my 'whole album about one story' theory. Of course I've done exactly what everyone does and twist the lyrics to meet personal experiences and theories. Of course only Alex and Miles know, but I enjoyed writing it anyway. Would be pleased to hear from people who agree or disagree! |
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